Example sentences of "out [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record .
2 His morning swims at the Queen Mother Leisure Centre in Victoria are a vital part of his training which he describes as ‘ a treat for my body after the running ’ and , like many other runners , he will go out for a long run on a Sunday .
3 Shrouded in snow and shivering with cold , I arrive at the door of the friary , and after calling out for a long time , the brother porter gets up and asks : ‘ Who is it ? ’
4 I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’
5 Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk .
6 It seemed to ring out for a long time .
7 One evening they were out for a long , long time .
8 ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse .
9 Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking .
10 His youngest daughter was almost ready for burial , her body emptied , dried out , repacked , decked out for the long night , bandaged in the finest linen with the scarab placed over her heart , and laid in her case of painted cedarwood .
11 Despite these adaptations , when the surrounding soil dries out during the long dry season , the toads may still lose considerable amounts of body water .
12 It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway .
13 It was like the sun coming out after a long time of darkness .
14 The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase .
15 The final tally was 41 , with 12 reported for possible prosecution , six cautioned , and 23 others either talked to or extremely worn out after a long chase .
16 It had come from nowhere , out of a long silence , like something fired from a gun .
17 I was born in May 1947 , when the whole of Britain was thawing out of a long , freezing winter made crueller by a fuel crisis .
18 Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector .
19 For it was born out of a long histtory of protest .
20 At this moment a lion bursts out of the long grass and bush and leaps on a warrior .
21 He turned , staring out of the long window again , effectively dismissing the man .
22 Such long term fixed rate financing opportunities may not be so readily available in the future , with the chance of the corporate sector being crowded , or priced , out of the long end of the market .
23 Then , as some car in the street outside her hotel coughed and choked and backfired , Fabia abruptly came out of the long reverie she had fallen into , and back to the present , to realise that it was Monday morning — did she think she was going to sit there in bed all day ?
24 ‘ Or perhaps guilt has always been a condition of man , since the early days of the world , before time rolled out like a long slumber across the universe .
25 ‘ Listen for its slurred , gulping notes , increasing in speed and loudness , ’ reads one report , ‘ notes which are often drawn out into a long whistling finale . ’
26 When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side .
27 Colour another 225g 18oz ) of the marzipan green , and roll out into a long wide strip .
28 If you try that with erm a piece of wood , you try to pull it out into a long thin wire it would just break .
29 Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome .
30 I reckon they 'll come with 9 or 10 behind the ball at all times and hope to catch Leeds out with a long punt or from a set piece .
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